In the scorching deserts of Namibia, Oman, and Saudi Arabia, scientists have discovered intriguing structures in marble and ...

Every day, tiny plastic particles called nano- and microplastics find their way into your drinking water. Invisible to the naked eye, these fragments could silently threaten your health. Recent ...

For most organisms on Earth, rocks are objects, not food. But for one oddball microbe, desert limestone seems to have been on ...

Mysterious tunnels in desert rocks may be the work of unknown microbes, hinting at a hidden world inside marble and limestone ...

Tiny fragments of microplastics are making their way deep inside our bodies in concerning quantities, significantly through our food and drink.

Researchers injected CO2 gas into seawater while applying an electrical current. The process transformed dissolved ions, ...

This strange white paste might not look like much, but it might help solve the sand shortage, while making the cement ...

The quest for carbon-neutral concrete has become a billion-dollar endeavor – but a team of scientists from Northwestern gas ...

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The discovery has sparked interest among scientists studying endolithic microorganisms, unknown life forms inside rocks.

To make concrete, limestone, or calcium carbonate, is mixed with clay and other materials and then calcined at high temperatures, so CO2 is released via the thermal decomposition of calcium carbonate.